Joel Osteen Devotional for 23rd January 2025 Thursday Message
TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL MESSAGE BY JOEL OSTEEN 23 JANUARY 2025
God has created you to be a victor, not a victim. Jump-start your day by celebrating the very best that God has for you! These daily inspirations will help you grow in your relationship with the Lord and equip you to be everything God intends you to be.
Joel Osteen Devotional for 23rd January 2025 Thursday Message
Today’s Topic: Who’s in Your Ear?
Scripture: Become wise by walking with the wise; hang out with fools and watch your life fall to pieces.
Proverbs 13:20, MSG
Today’s Word
We all have people who are influencing us, people who are in our ear. We’re listening to their counsel, following their suggestions, trusting what they say. The question is: Are they the right people? You shouldn’t take advice from everyone or be swayed by every opinion. You need to look at their track record. Have they made good decisions? Do they honor God? Do they have your best interests at heart?
You have to be careful who’s in your ear. If you have wrong voices, you’re going to make wrong choices. If you hang around friends who compromise or coworkers who gossip, their example, their advice, and how they’re influencing you will keep you from your potential. Be selective. Some people will tell you how to run your life, but they can’t even run their own life. They’re giving you relationship advice, but they’ve been through six breakups. They’ll tell you how to invest and spend your money, but they can’t pay their own bills. Before you take that advice, consider the source. Are they a person of integrity and excellence?
Prayer For Today
“Father, thank You for the people in my life who inspire me, challenge me, and make me better. Help me to be wise about who I listen to and the counsel and opinions I receive. Help me to distance myself from anyone whose influence will keep me from my potential. I want to walk with the right people. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”
In Numbers 13, Moses sent twelve men to spy out the Promised Land. Ten came back and said, “We don’t have a chance. The people are huge. We were in our own sights as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sights.” They didn’t say, “They called us grasshoppers. They insulted us.” They said, “We were in our own sights as grasshoppers.” They went in with a grasshopper mentality.
Their thinking was infected. It wasn’t that the people were too big. They had just seen God part the Red Sea, drown their enemies, change the Pharaoh’s mind. They could look back and see the faithfulness of God. But when you let infection in, you start believing doubt and fear and not able and it’s too much. Even though, like Gideon, God calls you a mighty hero, that infection is going to cloud your vision, weaken your faith, drain your strength.
You have to ask yourself, “Who told me that I’m not smart enough to go to college? Who told me that I don’t deserve to be blessed? Who told me that I’m not attractive, I don’t have a good personality? Who told me I’ll never break this addiction?” I can assure you: it was not God. That’s infection. You have to remove it. Quit feeding your fears. Quit feeding that guilt.
Quit feeding that doubt and instead start feeding your faith. Feed what God says you are. That’s why we start off every service saying, “I am who God says I am. I am blessed. I am forgiven. I am valuable. I am talented. I am strong. I am healthy. I am prosperous. I am victorious.” One of the best ways to clear up infection is to declare who God says you are.
Our Daily Bread Devotional for 23 January 2025
